Thursday, June 20, 2013
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By DPI Staff
WASHINGTON, D.C. June 13 (DPI) -- With rare unanimity readers on comment boards across the net applauded the US Supreme Court's decision to deny patent protection to companies that have identified human genetic material.
Some readers expressed surprise that the matter even reached the Supreme Cou
By DPI Staff
WASHINGTON, D.C. June 10 (DPI) -- Boards are flooded today with comments on the Booz Allen security leak, which predictably spurred a debate over government surveillance vs. personal privacy.
Readers are grappling with this: Is 29-year-old Edward Snowden a hero or a traitor for leaking classified
By DPI Staff
WASHINGTON, D.C. June 4 (DPI) -- In one of the healthier political developments of this ultra-partisan era, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia voted with a minority that included Ruth Bader Ginsberg on the issue of law enforcement's collection of DNA samples from crime suspects.
The Supreme Cou
News Features & Profiles of People Worth Reading About
By DPI Staff
WASHINGTON, D.C. June 13 (DPI) -- With rare unanimity readers on comment boards across the net applauded the US Supreme Court's decision to deny patent protection to companies that have identified hum
By DPI Staff
WASHINGTON, D.C. June 10 (DPI) -- Boards are flooded today with comments on the Booz Allen security leak, which predictably spurred a debate over government surveillance vs. personal privacy.
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By DPI Staff
WASHINGTON, D.C. June 4 (DPI) -- In one of the healthier political developments of this ultra-partisan era, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia voted with a minority that included Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Finance, Business, Investments & Your Dough
By DPI Staff
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA May 23 (DPI) - The Washington Post used the Freedom of Information Act to force a billionaire hedge fund manager and the University of Virginia to disclose his private remarks at a
By DPI Staff
NEW YORK, NY, May 20 (DPI) - Tech analysts say amateur pornography - in effect, millions of adult photo blogs -- has driven the modest growth of the social-blogging platform Tumblr, acquired today by
By DPI Staff
WASHINGTON, D.C. May 8 (DPI) - American multinational corporations have always been instruments of US power in the world, but that power - measured in terms of profits - has never been as far-reaching
Media, The Net & Messaging
By DPI Staff
WASHINGTON, D.C. May 31 (DPI) -- Just days after President Obama announced new restrictions on drone strikes as part of a draw-down on the war on terror, a drone strike killed a high-ranking Taliban c
By DPI Staff
SAN FRANCISCO May 31 (DPI) - Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg has spent the last few months promoting her book encouraging women to assert themselves more in the workplace.
But posters identifyin
By DPI Staff
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA May 23 (DPI) - The Washington Post used the Freedom of Information Act to force a billionaire hedge fund manager and the University of Virginia to disclose his private remarks at a
Politics, Policy & Public Power
By DPI Staff
WASHINGTON, D.C. June 13 (DPI) -- With rare unanimity readers on comment boards across the net applauded the US Supreme Court's decision to deny patent protection to companies that have identified hum
By DPI Staff
WASHINGTON, D.C. June 10 (DPI) -- Boards are flooded today with comments on the Booz Allen security leak, which predictably spurred a debate over government surveillance vs. personal privacy.
Reade
By DPI Staff
WASHINGTON, D.C. June 4 (DPI) -- In one of the healthier political developments of this ultra-partisan era, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia voted with a minority that included Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Home, Lifestyle & Gettin' Out of Town
By DPI Staff
NEW YORK, April 26 (DPI) -- Better technology -- larger screens and high-definition imagery -- has helped solve an old problem for the National Hockey League: Getting fans to watch its games on a tele
By DPI Staff
NEW YORK, March 13 (DPI) -- A brief New York Times review of National Geographic reality show "Doomsday Preppers" triggered a predictably wide range of reader reaction, but only a handful of readers p
By DPI Staff
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10 (DPI) -- Facebook is forcing users to a more stylized and detailed format, but the move will likely backfire if users, especially older users, begin pulling the plug on their pr
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